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            <description><![CDATA[Not too long ago, when visiting a Department of Home Affairs (DHA) office you could find a room stacked to the roof with files and paperwork relating to waiver and appeal applications, all waiting to be adjudicated. No more of that, said Yusuf Simons, Acting Deputy Director-General for immigration services at the Department, during the recent Xpatweb Global Mobility Conference in Johannesburg.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Constructive dismissal is often misunderstood by both employers and employees. Unlike a conventional dismissal, the employer does not expressly terminate the employment relationship. Instead, the employee resigns, alleging that the employer's conduct, or failure to act, made continued employment so intolerable that resignation became the only reasonable option. Section 186(1)(e) of the Labour Relations Act recognises this principle by providing that a dismissal occurs where an employee terminates the employment contract, with or without notice, because the employer made continued employment intolerable.]]></description>
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            <title>A lesson from the bench on employers' understanding of deductions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Disputes concerning deductions from employee remuneration are relatively common in the workplace. Employers may, for example, suffer financial losses due to employee negligence, unauthorised absences, overpayments, damage to company property, or other forms of misconduct. It may therefore appear logical that an employer should simply recover the amount owed by deducting it from the employee’s salary. However, the position is considerably more nuanced.]]></description>
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            <title>Cybercrime across borders: Navigating Africa’s fragmented legislative landscape – Part 2</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Part one of this series, we detailed the disparity amongst the African countries in mainly Southern Africa and the various approaches to cybersecurity. Unfortunately, this creates a uncertainty for many multi-jurisdictional entities operating across the African continent on how to best approach the issue of cybersecurity when there are discrepancies in the promulgation of legislation targeted at addressing this very issue. In the second and final part of this series, we focus specifically on ...]]></description>
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            <title>Cybercrime across borders: Navigating Africa’s fragmented legislative landscape – Part 1</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By the time you reach the end of this sentence, a cyberattack will have been launched somewhere on the African continent. That is not an exaggeration, but rather what has become the new reality on the African continent. Across Africa, financial services are digitising at speed, through mobile banking, cross-border insurance platforms and digital payment ecosystems, creating an attack surface of remarkable breadth and complexity. The laws meant to combat cybercrime and protect the institutions and people who rely on those services, however, remain patchy at best.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[More than seven-million pairs of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses were sold worldwide in 2025. That figure alone should make any compliance officer focus. Apple’s AirPods Pro 3, launched in September 2025, now monitor heart rate and translate live conversations using artificial intelligence. A next-generation Apple AirPod with an embedded camera is in advanced testing. These are not consumer curiosities, they are data collection instruments that walk through office doors, and POPIA has something to ...]]></description>
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            <title>When the clock starts ticking... Why cross-border data breach response demands more than good ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Picture this… A retailer with operations spanning southern and eastern Africa discovers on a Friday evening that a threat actor has exfiltrated customer records from a compromised cloud environment. The breach touches individuals in Kenya, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. In Zambia and Zimbabwe, the clock gives them just 24 hours to notify the regulator. In Kenya, they have 72 hours, unless their systems qualify as critical information infrastructure, in which case the window shrinks to a mere 24 hours. South Africa’s POPIA, by contrast, imposes no fixed-hour deadline at all, requiring notification only “as soon as reasonably possible”.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[1.1. The interaction between South African intellectual property law and the South African Exchange Control Regulations of 1961 (the 1961 Regulations) creates a complex compliance environment impacting, inter alia, the externalisation of computer software developed in South Africa and cross-border software development. The primary hurdle from an exchange control perspective is Regulation 10(1)(c) of the 1961 Regulations, which prohibits the export of capital – or any right to capital – from the Republic without exchange control approval.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Parties all too often, when negotiating agreements, agree to dispute resolution clauses without first understanding the implications of what is being agreed to in the event of a dispute arising. It has become vogue that dispute resolution clauses require that the parties mediate their disputes prior to engaging in arbitration or litigation. Indeed in April 2025 the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa introduced mandatory mediation which requires that parties attempt to resolve ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly moving from answering questions to taking actions on our behalf. This emerging form of AI, often called agentic AI, can independently perform tasks such as sending emails, deleting files, or modifying customer accounts. It can also be tricked into following malicious instructions hidden in emails, documents, or websites. This vulnerability is known as prompt injection. This creates a new challenge for incident response. What happens when technology authorised to act becomes the source of harm? As AI gains autonomy and attackers find new ways to exploit it, incident response plans must evolve. Organisations must now prepare for incidents in which AI may cause, facilitate, or amplify a security breach. Recent Developments]]></description>
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